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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. This second graphic diagrams a patient journey map for the coronavirus, across the continuum of care settings from the community and home to primary care, emergency, hospital, and post-acute.

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CVS Health unveils new virtual primary care platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CVS on Thursday announced the launch of its new CVS Health Virtual Primary Care service. The new offering integrates patient engagement tools, telehealth, electronic health record data and more on a single platform that can connect consumers with clinicians at CVS or other providers. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Academy of Medicine recently released a report urging everyone to have a primary care physician. The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. How can virtual care enable this?

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Telehealth In 2030 – Notes From the Future At #ATA19 with Safavi, Holt, Bathina and Swafford

Health Populi

Deepthi from Humana offered three considerations concerning how care will transform. First, connected care: one in five U.S. We modeled three scenarios: a typical primary care office visit, ongoing patient management dealing with a chronic condition, and patient self-management at home. healthcare system.

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Health Commons Project Completes Acquisition of OneHealthPort to Advance Healthcare Innovation and Access across Washington State

Healthcare IT Today

. “By bringing Washington’s HIE into our nonprofit network, we can empower more health and social care providers, public health agencies, and communities with the tools they need to deliver better, more connected care. We are excited to expand our capabilities to improve healthcare outcomes for all.”

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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Solving the Disconnections in Connected Care

GlobalMed

But it doesn’t work with the system used by the patient’s primary care provider, even though the provider is in-network. Any organization that’s serious about improving their outcomes with telemedicine owes it to their patients to ensure their connected care is truly connected. Request a Demo.